“Oh honey, if ANYONE would have an albino bird, it would be you.” We have a white robin spending the season with us. We’ve named her Blanca, although she could be a he for all I know, as it isn’t easy to identify the… Read More ›
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A Story in Progress: Darkness Falls on Endurance, Part Two
Earlier that week… Corabelle Sills stood offstage and watched her father deliver his opening night speech. Where were they this week? She glanced at the poster tacked to one of the wooden posts holding up the curtain. Endurance. Corabelle sighed…. Read More ›
What’s a Farthingale? Asked No Theatre Person, Ever.
The good news is, it’s January 3 and I find my resolve is stronger than ever. Why, only this very morning, I resolved to have a bagel instead of oatmeal for breakfast, so I shed my feathery negligee (kidding–there are no… Read More ›
Happy New Year
I’ve decided to make 2017 my bitch–as soon as this Star Trek Voyager marathon is over and once I’ve finished this 3000 piece puzzle. But after all that shit’s done, 2017 better watch the hell out. Happy damn new year.
Something in the Air
Honestly, I’ve never heard anyone utter the words “I hate Santa Fe.” It would be like someone saying “I hate puppies” or “I hate breathing.” Folks who live there, as well as those who visit, will recite, gladly, a litany… Read More ›
Stuff I Learned This Weekend
I don’t have kids and I never was one, so my experience with wee folk and their behavior is limited. And when I say wee folk, I’m not referring to fairies because I have tons of experience with fairies–enough to fill several posts, I’ll… Read More ›
Know When To Quit
I’d started a different blog post for today and had been toiling away for a couple of hours when I stopped and ditched the whole thing because not only had it gone off the rails, it had jumped a big mofo shark in the… Read More ›
I’m in a Mood
First, I blamed all the usual suspects. I started with Monday because it’s Monday and Mondays usually suck for one reason or another, so why should this one be different? Except the truth is, as Mondays go, this one is… Read More ›
I Make Up Stuff
I have to say I’m a little surprised the initial content on this website is so fiction-oriented. When I envisioned this project, I saw myself regaling you with amusing anecdotes from my daily life that would have you doubled over with laughter, gasping… Read More ›
I’m in over My Head and I Just Started
“…writing, like just about every other artistic pursuit, is about losing more often than you win and still doing it, because, well, just because.”
Extra Dry with a Twist 